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Overt Abuse and Mischaracterisations by Bully de Blanc

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Blue hair, Bully de Blanc
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Summary: The campaign to ruin the FSF and silence its founder, Richard M. Stallman (RMS), goes months prior to the hate letter set up by Bully de Blanc, her boss, and the Microsoft-sponsored OSI; they just attack the licence (GPL/copyleft) and they try to redefine things for the corporations which fund them

A reader of ours recently wanted to add some more information on Molly de Blanc, whom we dubbed "Bully de Blanc" last month because of the bullying (some people have since then copied the name; MinceR says "Bully the blanc" or "the blank").



"Earlier this year (in February) Bully de Blanc attacked the very definition of Free software (in apparent collaboration between the GNOME Foundation and OSI) and the desire to attack RMS was already expressed out in the open (in Bully de Blanc's blog) months before he even came back to the FSF's Board."When someone engages in character assassination (based on deliberate distortion, libel, and a gish gallop of falsehoods), he or she should not be shocked to find online criticism of him or her. This is why when it comes to Bully de Blanc we've shown no particular remorse; we objectively explained what we had observed. Earlier this year (in February) Bully de Blanc attacked the very definition of Free software (in apparent collaboration between the GNOME Foundation and OSI) and the desire to attack RMS was already expressed out in the open (in Bully de Blanc's blog) months before he even came back to the FSF's Board. So they must have waited for an excuse or a "trigger" event.

This post contains a polite, calm, and fact-checked interpretation. It will also quote, anonymously, some people who read this site and have researched the matter themselves.

"I have noticed your video here," one reader noted. "Please put attention here on [the] official Molly de Blanc profile" (in Debian.org).

"As where she tries to be "Debian developer" but it most probably is over," the reader said, "as status is "Closed". That is contradictory information and false representation which in the end is also illegal act. She is stating there to be "I also work at the FSF, and serve on the Open Source Initiative board of directions." -- whereby I do not think she is now at FSF -- please verify and use your connections to remove that profile, or archive it. This page says she is not on the board. Maybe she was on both boards, but it is very obvious that she has no clear policy neither on "Open Source" [nor] on FSF, she is image maker. As a conclusion, I wish to point out to a pattern of false representations by Molly de Blanc. I think that it would be worth putting it into the timeline, as I have seen pattern of false representations."

DreyfusWe too have noticed some of that. "All the roles are past roles," a reader noted. "She doesn't remove the roles from web sites, she keeps using all these titles as a substitute for skills."

To us, it doesn't necessarily matter whether the credentials are false, outdated, or acquired by means like a romantic relationship. What matters to us is the persistent and ongoing agenda, which was outlined even months before the hate letter was put online, backed by corporate media sponsored by the same corporations that control the OSI and GNOME Foundation. Don't think those people are just going away and won't be coming back. They try to induce fear and self-shame to keep RMS silent. He's still reluctant to do new interviews with us (or with anyone else for that matter). The hate letter was updated just over a week ago, just to say that aren't accepting a public apology from RMS. Nothing he does will ever make them happy. They're still concern-trolling the FSF, trying to shun it while taking money from Microsoft (which bribes officials, not just the OSI and Linux Foundation).

To better understand what we're up against, we must understand the agenda and also understand whose agenda that is. IBM, which is now under fire for abuses against workers, has many reasons to dislike what RMS says.

"If thought can corrupt language, then language can also corrupt thought."

--George Orwell



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